NOBOLERO 2.1.

AVANT PREMIERE LOOP BARCELONA 2025

NOBOLERO 2.1

A choreographic performance by Chantal Yzermans
with photographer Aleksei Kazantsev and pianist Manuel del Rincón

Saturday, November 16, 2025
Performances at 5 pm · 6 pm · 7 pm
Followed by an open gathering from 7:30 pm to 11:00 pm
Free Music School, Carrer Lleida 39, Poble Sec, Barcelona
Presented as part of LOOP City Screen 2025

Building on her 2017 performance NOBOLERO, Chantal Yzermans revisits the iconic Ravel Boléro—originally premiered at the Paris Opéra on 22 November 1928, choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska for dancer Ida Rubinstein—and Béjart’s celebrated ballet version of 1960. Through this lens, she investigates the origins and originality of movement, revealing how artistic gestures evolve and resonate as they are filtered through the textures of history and collective memory.

In this hybrid live work, she counterpoints her choreographic reinterpretation with insights from neuroscientist Dr. Joëlle Adrien, examining the relationship between movement, perception, and the dreaming mind. Collaborating with photographer Aleksei Kazantsev and composer Manuel del Rincón, NOBOLERO 2.1 transforms the ritualistic essence of the stage version into a live audiovisual and screen-based experience, bridging performance, concert, and visual composition.

A collaboration between Chantal Yzermans & Aleksei Kazantsev
Live music by Manuel del Rincón

Original costume design Jean Paul Lespagnard

City Screen Loop Barcelona

Free Music School, Carrer Lleida, 39. Porta T1 08004 Barcelona

PHOTO NOBOLERO 2.1. Aleksei Kazantsev